Moz bot transforms special characters into fake 404 Pages in Reports
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I have a lot of 404 links in my exported Moz Pro reports which are not actually Not Found pages when checking the Referring URL. For example:
Referring URL:
https://ofertolino.ro/oferte/barn%C3%A4ngen404:
https://ofertolino.ro/barn%C3%83%C2%A4ngenWhat happens is that the referring URL leads to a redirect (https://ofertolino.ro/barn%C3%A4ngen) but it never leads to the specified 404 Page (which has even a more weird symbol in the URL when it is url decoded) in the report.
What could be the issue here and is the Moz bot responsible for such misbehaviour?
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Hey - Dave from Support here.
Can you send these details to our support team along with your account info, so we can take a look at your campaign Site Crawl results? Feel free to reach us at help@moz.com
thanks!
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